Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
On Monday, Amazon Web Services released a tool called TorchNeuron that lets AI startups easily move their AI apps onto...
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Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent that has been gaining ground among developers as an alternative to Claude Code and...
Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life
Tolan, the AI companion designed to help people manage their daily lives, navigate relationships and emotions, and accomplish their goals,...
Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago
Twelve years ago today, Eugenia Kuyda stood up on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt and presented a conversational chatbot called IO...
Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
In Brief Posted: 11:37 AM PDT · October 19, 2026 Image Credits:Tenstorrent Tenstorrent, a chip startup focused on inference, has...
People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
The latest use case for AI? Dumbing down your smart TV to get rid of the bloat. A number of...
Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs
Nvidia on Thursday launched new open-weight models designed for always-on agents and edge computing. The Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is...
Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world
If there’s one lesson the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident taught us, it’s that AI agents can be unpredictable. “Imagine if something...
Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’
Anthropic announced today that it’s creating a “public benefit fund” that will give the company “increased flexibility and scale” to...
Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce
In Brief Posted: 9:30 AM PDT · October 18, 2026 Image Credits:Character.AI After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier...